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A proof of concept for serving a static Astro/Starlight site from Azure Container Apps, with Azure Front Door Standard handling TLS, WAF, and a custom hgs-engineering.dev domain.

Architecture Overview

Why this POC exists and how the pieces (ACA, ACR, Front Door, Key Vault, monitoring) fit together. Read more.

Containerization

How the static Astro build gets packaged into a Docker image and served by nginx on Azure Container Apps. Read more.

Front Door & TLS Strategy

Why this POC uses Azure Front Door’s free managed certificate instead of the Group’s approved certificate provider. Read more.

Custom Domain Setup

The cutover steps and service desk ticket needed to attach hgs-engineering.dev to Front Door. Read more.